618 A Commentary upon the Glel Chap°27. Mark.' 1.46. Ni :a furl.ria fetaba ex ibcris mirerunt mibi muneri Pabu1- lur ér Vera> . uius. Cacu1. 3°a:cc Chrono! Turk Fäif1. fol loiö of it.. Audendo Groci pervenéreTrojam. Ale.tander neverat- tempted any thing, but he conceived it might be done, and he did it. HiRoriaas afcribe molt of his fucceffe, to his courage ; and tell us, that havinga fouldier of his ownname in his army whom he knew to be a coward, he commanded him either to change his name, or Phew his valour. So faith (Thrift to all his Iofephs and NicodemuTres ; either play the men, or pretend not to me. Verfe 59. He wrapped it in es clean linnen cloth] Whichhe hadbought new for the purpofe, faith St Mark, to his na fmall colt : for linnen in thofe dales was precious, fo that a handker- chief among even the Roman riotours, was a rich token, as ap- pears out of the Poet. Neither did this rich man loofehis colt ; for he is and [hall be famous for it to the worlds end : though e- very body benot at leafure co doas Paleottea Archbifhop ofBe- /son] did, who wrot a great bookofthe fhadow of Chrifìs body in. Iofephs new fyndon ; which was alto commented upon by the Profeffour of Divinity there. Vcrfé 6o. And laid it in hie own new tomb] His own, which was now well warmed fweetned and fanftified by our Saviours body, againli himfelf fhould be laid there ; as afterwards he might and probably was too. A new tomb it was, and fit it fhould be for that virgin-body, or maiden - corps, as one calls it, untoucht and untainted. Betides, elfe it might have been fufpefted, that not Chrifi but another arofe ; or if he, yet not by his own, but by anothers verrue: like him who revived at the touching of the bonesofdead Elifha, 2 King,r 3. Buried our Saviour was. i. That none might doubt of hisdeath. 2. That our fines mightbe buri- edwith him. 3. That our graves might beprepared and perfu- med for us, as fo many beds of rotes, or delicious dormitories, I/a.57.2. He was buried in Calvary, to note that he died for the condemned : and in a garden, to expiate that firfi fnnecommit- ted in the garden : and in another mans fepulchre, to note that he died for other mensfins, as Tome will have it. Helena, mother of Confiantine the great, bellowed great coif in repairing this fe- pulchre of our Saviour, which the Heathens our of hatred to Chrifi had thrown down, andbuilt a temple toVenus on the fame ground. And Ieru[dlem, that poor ruinous city, being governed, by one ofthe Turk! Sauzacks, isfor nothing now more famous then for the fepulchre of otsr Saviour again repaired, and much vifited
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